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The Rocking Dead will make you shiver with antici... #soundgarden #smashingpumpkins #originalworks #werewolves #classicrock #shadowboxlive #artmakescbus #cbus #livetheatre #professionaltheatre #columbusohio #halloween #rockandroll #zombies #therockingdead #vampires #comedy #lifeincbus #theatre #coven #sketchcomedy #goofy #annielennox #monstermash #rockyhorror
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Only four more chances to see Evolutionaries! Come join us in paying tribute to two of the most influential artists of our time. Tonight and tomorrow @ 7:30! #davidbowie #prince #electricchair #ziggystardust #purplerain #suffregettecity #shadowboxlive #livetheatre #seethemagic #hearthemusic #classicrock #actorlife #performing #rockandroll #artmakescbus #theatre #lifeincbus #columbusohio #evolutionaries #tributeshow
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Come float away with us under the stars! Our Beatles Tribute show Bigger Than Jesus is coming to the @columbuscommons TODAY ONLY at 8:00 PM. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and get there early to stake out your seat. Several thousands will join you to experience this one of a kind show. Stay tuned for for more fun photos and video as the day continues! #shadowboxlive #artmakescbus #rockandroll #onenightonly #biggerthanjesus #columbuscommons #beatlestribue #thebeatles #outdoorperformance #seethemagic #hearthemusic #classicrock #lucyinthesky
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Are you ready for some spooky favorites from the likes of Soundgarden, Annie Lennox, and Smashing Pumpkins? Then ghost on down to Shadowbox Live for opening night of The Rocking Dead TONIGHT @ 7:30 #artmakescbus #shadowboxlive #sketchcomedy #rockandroll #columbusohio #originaltheatre #halloween #werewolves #therockingdead #soundgarden #annielennox #smashingpumpkins
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27 Broadway Shows of the Season Recreated With Legos
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SM: If anything ever happens to me, the call book is in the calling station.
ASM: Well that’s ominous.
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The Shadowbox Live Academy presented its first educational matinee (of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) EVER in 2009. It is a trend that has continued ever since with at least 4 student matinees for free a year.
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#educational theatre#musicals#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum#free theatre#professional theatre#sbxfunfacts
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How Shadowbox Live stacks up against other Non-Profit mid-sized theatres in the country.
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In 2012, Shadowbox Live received a citation for serving and potentially expanding opera’s central Ohio audience in 2012 with their innovative and accessible production of Joel Ivany’s English-language adaptation of La Boheme
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Shadowbox Live’s first national press mention was in in a 1995 issue of Playboy
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what she says: i'm not here for you
what she means: congratulations. you have invented a new kind of stupid. a damage you can never undo, kinda stupid. and open all the cages in the zoo, kinda stupid. truly, you didn't think this through? let's review. you took a rumor a few maybe two people knew and refuted it by sharing and affair of which no one has accused you. i begged you to take a break you refused to. so scared of what your enemies will do to you, you're the only enemy you ever seem to lose to. you know why jefferson can do what he wants? he doesn't dignify schoolyard taunts with a response. so yeah, congratulations.
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Zoltar is displeased that you haven’t signed up to audition for our Summer Bootcamp!
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“I really do pride myself on going, ‘Is this something that I truly want?’ Because for actresses, and actors I think, there’s a great joy in being chosen. Then you have to sit down and say, ‘Am I just happy I’m chosen, or am I happy that I get to tell this story and play this role eight times a week for the next year?’ There is a big difference. Whether you’re a woman or a man. I’ve had to ask myself that question, ‘Do I want to play this woman? Is this woman a part of me?’ or ‘Is this woman so scary that I have to play her because it’s such a great challenge?’ But if it just feels wrong or foreign, or you just want the job to get the job, these are not reasons to keep changing who you are just so you can be chosen for the part…To me, success is only success if it’s on your terms and the way that you want it.” – Stephanie J. Block (x)
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ShadowboxLive: A Tribute to Joe Cocker: Mad Dog & Englishman, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15, 2015
EXUBERANCE - ex-u-ber-ance/ig'zō ōb(ǝ)rǝns/ noun - That with which ShadowboxLive performs “A Tribute to Joe Cocker: Mad Dog & Englishman.”
Featuring nine different lead vocalists, as many as a dozen musicians - including a four-piece horn section from Columbus’s own Jazz Arts Group - and up to 15 backup singers gathered around three mics, ShadowboxLive’s tribute to Joe Cocker epitomized exuberance.
Never was this more apparent than in the troupe’s high-octane rendition of “Delta Lady.” The song was as rambunctious as Cocker, who died late last year at 70, and featured not one - but two - false endings, as the performers player, sang, shouted, jumped and generally plowed their way though Cocker’s 1969 powerhouse track.
This delivery was so electrifying that it resulted not only in the false endings - which Auntie Sound Bites, attending her second performance, said wasn’t done the first time - but a reprise at show’s end, capping the final performance of what one Shadowboxer called “the best show we’ve had in years.”
“Delta Lady” kicked off a second-half, four-song, literally show-stopping run that also included “Catfish,” “You Can Leave Your Hat On” and “Let’s Go Get Stoned” that featured the best of what this revue had to offer. And what it had to offer was virtuosic musicianship, knockout singing, on-stage charisma - and yes, exuberance - that kept the sold-out crowd rapt during songs and offering loud, heartfelt applause after nearly each one.
The on-stage energy was so high, even the guys banging tambourines when it wasn’t their turn to sing did their job with such hair-swingin’, booty-shakin’, house-rockin’ enthusiasm it was infectious.
There were a couple of misses - despite impassioned deliveries, sappy ballads such as “Up Where We Belong” and “You Are So Beautiful" seemed out of place in this show - but “A Tribute to Joe Cocker: Mad Dog & Englishman” was virtually all hits.
Just like Cocker himself, the super-talented Shadowbox performers, clad in colorful, 1970s hippie regalia, covered a wide swath of rock ‘n’ roll royalty, including the Rolling Stones (”Honkey Tonk Women”), Leon Russell (”Tight Rope”), the Beatles (”She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”) and Blind Faith (”Can’t Find My Way Home”) among others.
The lead vocalists - both men and women - were wise and didn’t attempt to imitate the inimitable Cocker. Instead, they brought their own voices to the songs and delivered them with confidence, verve, elan and panache (read: exuberance) and each one of them blew the sold-out house’s collective mind.
And let’s not forget the backup singers. This gang of women - with a few men thrown in for good measure - shook, dance, clapped and harmonized their way through the concert with sheer joy and almost stole the show. It’s a testament to the killer core band and lead singers that they managed to turn in performances powerful enough to pry eyes and ears away from this magnetic bunch.
It seems unjust that players and singers this gifted are stuck at a Columbus non-profit, where they wait tables before performances and at intermission. But it’s the good fortune of the city’s residents that they are. Shows such as “A Tribute to Joe Cocker” make Sound Bites feel incredibly lucky to have such an institution in his hometown.
Grade card: “A Tribute to Joe Cocker: Mad Dog & Englishman” - A-
Songs Performed: 1: Honkey Tonk Women; Darlin Be Home Soon; Cry Me A River; Something; Tight Rope; Stranger in A Strange Land; Feelin’ Alright; Up Where We Belong; The Letter: She Came in through the Bathroom Window; Unchain My Heart 2: Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Space Captain; Delta Lady; Catfish; You Can Leave Your Hat On; Let’s Go Get Stoned; Can’t Find My Way Home; Sticks and Stones; You Are So Beautiful; Give Peace A Chance; With A Little Help from My Friends; Delta Lady Reprise
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Listen to Audra McDonald Transform Into a ‘Pop Diva’ in an Exclusive Track from the Hello Again Film
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So, last month @jmujaneway asked me the following question:
“Hiya! Someone at lunch said there’s a debate as to which Shakespeare character spends the most time dead on stage. I figured you’d know! Please help?”
I offered up my best guesses (Caesar and Desdemona) and then you guys took over, with @nellololol going to far as to do some in-depth research and provide us with some line counts. This was far too fun to leave alone, though, so I’ve done my own line-counting and here are the results!
Now, Bassianus and Humphrey are somewhat debatable, as they can conceivably spend part of their “dead” time hidden in a pit or behind bed curtains respectively. However, I have seen both languish on stage in person, so they are included. Conversely, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Romeo and Juliet production that actually included the “real live body” of Tybalt in the final scene, but I have heard of those that have, and that have similarly had a “real live body” of Caesar in the funeral scene.
If we go by the has-to-be-on-stage-dead-the-entire-time-no-chance-of-being-swapped-out-for-a-dummy matrix, however, the winner is Desdemona. Take a bow Desd– oh wait, you can’t. You’re dead.
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